Abbrevation
CADathlon at ICCAD
City
Double Tree Hotel, San Jose
Country
United States
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Abstract

<p> In the spirit of the long&#8211;running ACM programming contest, the CADathlon challenges students in their CAD knowledge, and their problem solving, programming, and teamwork skills&#046; It serves as an innovative initiative to assist in the development of top students in the EDA field&#046; The contest will provide a platform for SIGDA, academia, and industry to focus attention on the best and brightest of next generation CAD professionals&#046; </p><p> The students will be given a number of problems that range in difficulty and topics&#046; Information about the CAD areas, relevant papers, and potentially a software framework that will run on Linux will be released one week before the competition&#046; Students will be allowed to work in teams of two&#046; At the contest, students will be given the problem statements and an example test data, but they will not have the judges&#8242; test data&#046; Solutions will be judged on correctness and efficiency&#046; The team that passes the most testcases is declared the winner&#046; A handsome prize awaits the winning team&#046; The judges are experts in EDA from both academia and industry&#046; </p><p> </p><p>During the competition students will be presented with <i>six</i> problems in the following areas: </p><ul><li>Circuit Design &amp; Analysis </li><li>Physical Design </li><li>Logic &amp; High&#8211;Level Synthesis </li><li>System Design &amp; Analysis </li><li>Functional Verification </li><li>Bio&#8211;EDA </li></ul>